[SOLVED]Change x-www-browser alternative to flatpak - Firefox

[Pryka]

Im setting up my new Debian installation and try to replace Firefox-ESR from x-www-browser alternatives with flatpak version. I have followed this guide https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox but unfortunately when I try to run sudo apt-get purge firefox-esr apt is trying to download and install chromium browser from the repositories.

LC_ALL=C sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

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There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                                              Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox   200       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/firefox-esr                               70        manual mode
* 2            /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox   200       manual mode

LC_ALL=C sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

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x-www-browser - manual mode
  link best version is /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox
  link currently points to /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox
  link x-www-browser is /usr/bin/x-www-browser
  slave x-www-browser.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/x-www-browser.1.gz
/usr/bin/firefox-esr - priority 70
  slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/firefox-esr.1.gz
/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/org.mozilla.firefox - priority 200

LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get purge firefox-esr

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libdbus-glib-1-2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox libjsoncpp24 libminizip1 libre2-9 libu2f-udev system-config-printer
Suggested packages:
  chromium-l10n chromium-shell chromium-driver
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  firefox-esr*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox libjsoncpp24 libminizip1 libre2-9 libu2f-udev system-config-printer
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 60.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 369 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

PS. Sorry for the stupid question I was running Gentoo and Arch for the last 10 years my Debian skills are next to none.
PS2. First forum post - Hello!

[4D696B65]

The meta-package that gave you ff-esr must give you chromium to satisfy itself. It's one or the other unless you remove the meta-package. Removing the meta-package might remove some other packages so keep an eye out on this.

[Pryka]

Oh so in my case it would be the gnome-core meta package

Thank you for the answer, marking topic as SOLVED

[himprakashd]

I was having a simillar problem but with konqueror and firefox. When trying to remove konqueror, firefox was getting installed.

When I tried to remove konqueror using dpkg `sudo dpkg -r konq-plugins konqueror`, I found that libreoffice-help-en-us depends on either of firefox-esr, epiphany-browser, konqueror, chromium or firefox.
```
(Reading database ... 211190 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing konq-plugins (4:20.12.0-4) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of konqueror:
libreoffice-help-en-us depends on firefox-esr | epiphany-browser | konqueror | chromium | firefox; however:
Package firefox-esr is not installed.
Package epiphany-browser is not installed.
Package konqueror is to be removed.
Package chromium is not installed.
Package firefox is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package konqueror (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
konqueror
```
After removing libreoffice-help-en-us, I was able to remove konqueror.